Harry Mathews Quotes
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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The truth is, I have more money than I'm interested in spending. Everyone in my family is taken care of.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures.
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I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
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Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.
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The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.
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I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.
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We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.
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When you have a celebrity who is willing to shine his personal spotlight on the non-profit and can also speak articulately about the mission, that's really the best of both worlds.
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I think that it helps that I have acted. That said, it doesn't mean you're going to be a good director.
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The show has become my therapy.
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There's no reason music should be difficult for an audience to understand.
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I'll invent a lie. Ricky Gervais has done anything interesting since 'The Office'. There's a lie right there.
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For me to own land in Detroit, it was a badge of honor, and it was support for the city.
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The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
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Silence, you know, is the best place to get close to spirit for me.
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Even working from nature you have to compose.
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Some people, when they die, leave so much life behind that we wonder how they did it.
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The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things, she decided, wondering how many writers and philosophers had said this before her, the trivial pleasures like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.
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Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
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But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.
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My Life in CIA is the first time that I've ever written a story in my own name.
